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Expanding Access to Monoclonal Antibody-Based Products Expanding access to monoclonal antibody-based products A global call to action Wellcome exists to improve health by helping great ideas to thrive. We support researchers, we take on big health challenges, we campaign for better science, and we help everyone get involved with science and health research. We are a politically and financially independent foundation. wellcome.ac.uk IAVI is a nonprofit scientific research organization dedicated to addressing urgent, unmet global health challenges including HIV and tuberculosis. Our mission is to translate scientific discoveries into affordable, globally accessible public health solutions. iavi.org Expanding access to monoclonal antibody-based products A global call to action wellcome.ac.uk iavi.org Executive summary Monoclonal antibodies are one of the most powerful Identifying pathways to provide affordable, timely tools in modern medicine. More than 100 of them and sustainable access to monoclonal antibody- have been licensed over the past 30 years and they based products across the globe is therefore a are transforming the way doctors treat, prevent and global health priority. even cure serious non-communicable diseases, including many cancers and autoimmune disorders. There is not a simple solution to this problem. These monoclonal antibody products are significantly Monoclonal antibodies are more complex and more effective than previously available therapies expensive to develop and produce than small and are often better tolerated and easier to deliver. molecule generic drugs. And the business and There’s also a rapidly growing pipeline of monoclonal partnership models that have vastly expanded antibodies to treat and prevent many existing and global access to some HIV drugs are not necessarily emerging infectious and neglected diseases. applicable or sufficient. Ensuring monoclonal antibodies are available and affordable globally Millions of people around the world stand to will require new ways of thinking, new types of benefit both from existing monoclonal antibody- collaboration and new ways of doing business. based products and those in development. Rates of non-communicable diseases are on the rise in This report identifies a series of parallel actions many developing countries. In addition, there are that are required to expand access to monoclonal numerous existing and emerging infectious disease antibodies. The process starts with advocacy and 99% of deaths from For global access to monoclonal respiratory syncytial virus occur in low- and middle- 99% of the sales of antibodies to be a reality, these income countries. Synagis, an antibody- innovative products have to be based preventive, are in the US and Europe. both available and affordable. threats, including COVID-19, Ebola and HIV, for awareness, but it also requires that regulatory and which monoclonal antibodies are poised to play policy issues are addressed, and that technological an important role in treatment and prevention. As advances are applied throughout the process of the COVID-19 pandemic has shown, no country is identifying, optimising, producing and delivering immune to the threat posed by emerging infectious more potent, lower-cost monoclonal antibody diseases. If monoclonal antibodies prove to be products. New business models that promote the effective for COVID-19, ensuring prompt, equitable availability and affordability of these products are and affordable global access to these products, as also necessary. Together, these actions will make it well as others, will be imperative. possible to address the growing inequity to these products, saving or improving millions of lives in the But as this report details, global access to process. monoclonal antibody products is now severely limited in many countries. Today, the market for Progress can’t come soon enough. The goal of this monoclonal antibodies is overwhelmingly in high- report is to catalyse discussion, collaboration and income countries. Few, if any, monoclonal antibodies action. Pharmaceutical companies, global health are registered in low-income countries, and those agencies, public sector entities, philanthropic that are registered in many middle-income countries organisations and ministries of health must join are often unavailable in their public health systems, forces to make global access to transformative making them prohibitively expensive. This gap monoclonal antibody products a priority, and a in access will only widen because monoclonal reality. antibodies are an increasingly large proportion of pharmaceutical company pipelines. The time to act is now. 4 | Expanding access to monoclonal antibody-based products Reshaping the monoclonal antibody world Today’s global market for monoclonal antibodies is highly unbalanced. US, Canada and Europe Note: Percentages are rest of world approximate Ensuring equitable access requires four parallel yet vital commitments. Increase Expand Apply Create awareness availability innovations new models Spread the word Support broader Invest in and Establish that monoclonal registration deploy new business models antibodies save of antibody technologies to that enable lives products across lower development different market the globe costs approaches and promote access Table of contents 07 Methodology 08 Monoclonal antibodies are transforming human health 12 Global need, but not global access 14 Case studies 18 What will it take to make monoclonal antibodies globally accessible? 20 Monoclonal antibodies are only accessible if they are available 22 Harmonising regulatory pathways 24 Expand and utilise policy pathways for mAb access 26 Raise awareness of the health benefits of mAbs 26 Strengthen healthcare systems and the ability to diagnose disease 28 Making monoclonal antibodies more affordable 30 Factors influencing global mAb prices 32 Validate and apply novel technologies to lower costs 39 Innovative approaches to intellectual property to expand access 39 Implement new business models that prioritise access 42 Establish procurement and delivery models to enable greater access 44 A roadmap for expanding global access to monoclonal antibodies 49 References Appendix (presented separately) 2 Stakeholders list 5 Monoclonal antibody products approved or under review in the European Union and United States 11 Trastuzumab biosimilars 13 Pipeline of monoclonal antibodies for emerging, neglected and endemic infectious diseases and pathogens 34 Isolation of antibodies 38 Biosimilar guidelines in BRICS-TM 6 | Expanding access to monoclonal antibody-based products Methodology Scope The goal of this report is to assess the factors impeding access to mAbs in low- and middle-income countries, particularly within public health systems, and to formulate a series of recommendations for expanding global access to affordable antibody therapies. The classification of low-, middle- and high-income countries is based on World Bank classifications. The report highlights opportunities for expanding access to monoclonal antibodies for cancers and autoimmune diseases, as well as those for neglected and viral/bacterial infectious diseases that are anticipated to represent a significant percentage of the future antibody market. These include antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, HIV, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), rabies, Ebola, filoviruses, viral enteric pathogens and gram negative bacterial enteric pathogens, including E.coli, Klebsiella p., Shigella and Salmonella, which are on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s lists of critical drug-resistant pathogens, as well as gram-positive bacterial enteric pathogens such as C. difficile. Approach, data collection and analyses were monoclonal antibodies to illustrate the impact they based on two methods. A robust assessment was have had on non-communicable, communicable conducted of peer-reviewed biomedical literature, and neglected diseases, and to evaluate the news sources, organisational websites, drug availability of the products and their impact in labels, recognised global and national datasets high-, middle- and low-income countries for which (including those available from the Institute for data are available. Case studies were selected Health Metrics and Evaluation), the WHO, clinical because they cover a broad range of mAbs trial registries, national regulatory agencies, for non-communicable diseases (cancers and national patent offices, drug pricing databases and autoimmune diseases), communicable diseases market reports to capture the current state of the (RSV and C. diff infections) and neglected diseases innovative and biosimilar mAb markets. Reports on (rabies). The case studies cover antibodies that antibody pricing models, with a focus on access to were approved more than 15 years ago (e.g. antibodies in public health systems in LMICs were Herceptin®, the first targeted antibody for breast analysed, and Charles River Associates (CRA) was cancer; Humira® and Enbrel®, which are the gold commissioned to extract more detailed information standard treatments for rheumatoid arthritis; and on pricing pressures and models, with a focus on Synagis®, the first licensed preventive antibody understanding global access challenges. for an infectious disease); as well as other more recent approvals (e.g. Keytruda®, Rabishield®, Additionally, a series of more than 100 interviews were Twinrab®, and Zinplava®). A landscape analyses conducted with global-health focused organisations, of emerging, neglected and endemic infectious
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